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Jens Flottau

Executive Editor, Commercial Aviation

Frankfurt, Germany

Summary

Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Jens is executive editor and leads Aviation Week Network’s global team of journalists covering commercial aviation.

He started his journalism career in 1992 as a freelance writer for Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s largest daily national newspaper and soon specialised in air transport. Jens joined Aviation Week and Aviation Daily in 2000 as one of the European correspondents. Later his role was expanded to cover international air transport. In 2013 he was named Managing Editor Commercial.

Jens frequently appears on radio and TV to comment on industry matters. In 2003, he received the Hugo Junkers Award of the German aviation press for his coverage of Fairchild Dornier’s bankruptcy. He was named the country’s top travel and air transport writer by the Travel Industry Club three times. Jens graduated from the Munich School of Journalism.

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Articles

By Jens Flottau
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr confirmed the move on the sidelines of the IATA annual general meeting in Boston on Oct. 3.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
The challenge for IATA, its new Director General Willie Walsh and the industry is not to look backward and attempt to re-establish the status quo ante, but to build something new.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
Italy’s new airline ITA has signed an MOU with Airbus and an agreement with Air Lease Corp. (ALC) for a total of 59 aircraft to start its transition from ex-Alitalia aircraft to a more modern fleet.
Airlines & Lessors